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H.AMDT.206 (A001)
Amends: H.R.1815
Sponsor: Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [VA-5] (offered 5/25/2005)
AMENDMENT DESCRIPTION:
Amendment authorizes the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the Armed Forces, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Bureau of Border Security and U.S. Customs Service of the Department of Homeland Security with preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers, and illegal aliens into the United States.
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
An amendment numbered 20 printed in House Report 109-96 to authorize the Secretary of Defense to assign members of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, under certain circumstances and subject to certain conditions, to assist the Department of Homeland Security in the performance of border protection functions.
STATUS:
- 5/25/2005 1:23pm:
- Amendment (A001) offered by Mr. Goode. (consideration: CR H3996-4001, H4016; text: CR H3996-3997)
- 5/25/2005 4:07pm:
- On agreeing to the Goode amendment (A001) Agreed to by recorded vote: 245 - 184 (Roll no. 214).